Story Summary: Devils Fight Back

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I read the story "Devils Fight Back". Tasmanian devils are predators that only live in Tasmania. There is a disease that may make them extinct. The disease is called devil facial tumor disease (DFTD). It is a cancerous tumor that forms on the animal's face or neck.
The cancer is contagious which isn't usually the case. It is transferred by two devils fighting and one is infected. The one that is infected bites the other one that is infected bites the other one and makes it bleed then the disease gets in the blood stream. They have poor immune systems that don’t know how to fight the cancer cells, By 2011 the disease wiped out 80 percent of the Tasmanian devils.
My scientific opinion is that we need to get control of this disease really soon.

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